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  • Meet The Island Communities Fighting Back Against Wealthy, Absent Landlords

    Adam Weymouth

    August 01, 2018 |

    The Huffington Post |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Scotland

    These tiny Scottish communities are taking control of their own The inhabitants of Eigg island in Scotland, raised $1.97 million dollars to buy the island they live on. Prior to that, the island had been privately owned by an absentee landlord and had fallen into demise. A pattern seen across Scotland which has the “highest concentration of private land ownership in the developed world.” However, “more than 560,000 acres of Scotland now rest in community ownership, with the government aiming to increase that figure to 1 million acres by 2020.”

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